is just weakest moment and talking to democratic spinners afterwards, they didn't have a very good defense of this. they just said well, we don't know what anyone knew at this point. and we're taking vice president's word for it. >> do you have any information? i still can't figure out why the white house has been pushing this video. now they're packing up. and vice president biden blaming others and saying they didn't have information but what -- why have they been unwilling to confront this one to get it straight? >> this is because we're 27 days out from election. it's not an easy answer for them. what you heard stephanie cutter do today is go back to trying to put this on the romney ryan ticket for a response and saying look they're just trying to political size a dark day in america. >> and this she's politicizing their blunder. saying we didn't do anything wrong, if these horrible republicans who asked a question about it. she's politicizing it. >> they would point to the first press release that came out from governor romney the day of the attacks and say that look. his first instin